Can a sneaky husband connect an android to his iPhone to mask calls and location?

Submitted by Dapper_Astronaut3443 t3_yfrbjx in iphone

I’m so positive my husband has a second phone. His cash always goes missing and he can never tell me what it gets spent on.

I’m a SAHM, and I do all the budgeting for us.

When I call sometimes while he’s at work, it’s an android voicemail, and not his normal iPhone voicemail. I called a few times and checked his location, and it was at work. After I called a few times, it just goes straight to voicemail like it’s shut off. And his location no longer updates.

I know I sound crazy but there has been cheating in the past. (I know I’m the idiot that stayed and proceeded to have 2 kids, 1 is only a couple months old) 😭

Just is it possible to have an android connected to an iPhone as a secret phone??

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EastCoast_Cyclist t1_iu4tjsc wrote

My condolences. This can't be easy.

My first impression after reading this is that he is simply forwarding his iPhone's voice calls to another phone using the iPhone's wireless carrier's method for doing this.

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Mgtroy35 t1_iu5bnw2 wrote

Yeah, my unfortunate assumption is that he is leaving his iPhone at work and forwarding his calls to his Android. That way, if his wife were to check, his location would be at work. When in reality he could be…anywhere else.

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EastCoast_Cyclist t1_iu5lice wrote

Yep, that certainly seems like one explanation. I forgot about the iPhone's location broadcast as being something to cover up.

I would suck at this deception.

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Mgtroy35 t1_iu5oiyt wrote

I hope it’s not the case, for the sake of OP.

My wife and I have our locations shared on Google Maps, for safety reasons. Based on what OP said, sounds like they have theirs enabled via the native find my and family sharing stuff.

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[deleted] t1_iu62ef4 wrote

Your condolences for what? If the person is cheating, which the evidence neither supports nor refutes, the person is playing the willing victim and looking for reddit hand holding.

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Sure-Ad6839 t1_iu5p3zf wrote

If you have to post something like this on Reddit that means your gut is telling you he’s cheating. Stop wasting your time with someone who makes you feel that way and take your talents to south beach.

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infinityandbeyond75 t1_iu4wbhr wrote

So one scenario I can think of is a prepaid android phone and buying prepaid cards to add minutes/data. He could then forward call to or from the Android. If he leaves work with the Android and leaves his iPhone at work then his location would show up at work but he could have calls forwarded to the Android.

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IMFROM9GAG t1_iu5ppxd wrote

Try messaging him on iMessage when you're suspecting he might not be at work. When he's forwarding and taking calls from an android, he won't be able to see your iMessages, and all messages he sends to you will only appear on your phone as a green bubble text message.

Best of luck!

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Dapper_Astronaut3443 OP t1_iu5ye7v wrote

It delivered as iMessage, but he never read/replied it until a couple hours later. I texted before I called though

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Calistamay t1_iu6eq7o wrote

If it went to his iPhone and he was using an Android then he wouldn’t have seen the iMessage until he returned for his iPhone, so taking a few hours to get back to you doesn’t bode well for him.

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Wrong-Age4234 t1_iu6jcvi wrote

OP the issue is not the phone. It seems to me that you are looking for some sort of validation that your husband is wrong. It looks like there is very little trust in your relationship. Ask him straightforward and express your concerns. You are just going to hurt your mental health by letting your mind run uncontrollably in the wrong direction. Best to get straight answers and not draw conclusions.

To answer your question yes it’s possible to leave your iPhone at work and forward your calls to a different number. I hope you find peace

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Jz0932 t1_iu71ntn wrote

there is no such thing as an Android voicemail and iPhone voicemail; the voicemail voice would be the same no matter what phone / model he had (it’s the carrier). He may have his calls forwarded to a work phone during certain times of the day while at work so he doesn’t have to carry around two phones (just an example). In regards to the phone going to voicemail/no location sometimes - have you ever considered there just may be a bad cell area in his office/job area? this would cause a phone call going straight to voicemail/no location showing.

it definitely seems as though you are looking for reasons to believe something else is going on - if you think about this logically, such as I did above, you wouldn’t think it looked so suspicious. but it definitely seems there may be more going on behind the scenes between you guys.

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gardobus t1_iu84y8y wrote

Yep, the Android vs iPhone voicemail thing is nonsense.

I don’t know about this dude but I never forwarded phones or cheated or anything but there were times where I got tunnel vision at work and missed calls and replied to texts late. Also meetings. I also worked on the bottom floor where the signal was horrible and Wi-Fi calling had issues at work.

So yeah, no smoking gun here for sure.

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rpaulmerrell t1_iu67pd4 wrote

Sounds like a really bad situation. Hopefully some trust can be rebuilt and the phone situation can be resolved.

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Generalrossa t1_iu69iwr wrote

He’s definitely up to no good again. Sorry OP. It’s time to confront him.

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kmkmrod t1_iu71xff wrote

He has his iPhone forwarded to an android. He leaves his iPhone at work and is sneaking off with his android, so if you track him it looks like he’s at work.

Sorry for your loss.

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munchkin1911 t1_iu5zhcy wrote

how would you know if it's an android voicemail? does voicemail work differently in the us, does it get stored on the phone? where I'm from it gets stored by the carrier.

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Dapper_Astronaut3443 OP t1_iu5znmz wrote

So when you call an iPhone the default voicemail is different than other phones. I guess I don’t specifically know which brand it is, but it was not his traditional iPhone voicemail lady

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[deleted] t1_iu622yk wrote

The default voicemail is neither the same nor different. It is carrier defined. I carry an iPhone and Android phone and, until customized, the message is the same on Verizon. Yes, I have carried two phones for years so this is not new.

With that said, yes, you are coming off as paranoid since there are other simpler explanations particularly since it corresponds to when the person is at work. If you have a concern about your husband then address it with him, not reddit. He could be cheating or you could be looking for a problem that does not exist. The phone is not the problem - it is the relationship that needs to be addressed.

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Available-Wafer-1938 t1_iu62vih wrote

Try sincerely talking to him, and please don’t jump to conclusion because that’s one of the easiest ways to ruin a marriage, maybe for some reason he was assigned a android phone for work and he is using the carrier his company provided him, That would be more logical than him going out and doing stuff behind your back, And about the money thing if it’s a few dollars off here and there then I wouldn’t see it as a serious issue unless it’s an item over 100 usd. Just calm down and think logically for your marriage please.

EDIT: ask the bank to look at where the money is going, he might not know because he has nothing to do with it going missing and your bank could be hacked, someone could be slowly taking money out of your account hoping you might not realize.

Like I said in the beginning ask him nicely and don’t bring up the idea of him purposefully hiding his location ask if he has a work phone, and check into your bank statements

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Dapper_Astronaut3443 OP t1_iu6dzlk wrote

I love the brightside, positivity. But I can say for sure that his work does not provide a work phone. Unfortunately the money thing is hundreds of dollars in cash, and even going as far as to withdrawing from my sons account, (one I don’t have access to, but he does on his phone), he has taken $100 from there. Pulled in $20 increments. Also does cash back a lot. Then tells me things like he doesn’t remember what it was spent on or why he needed it…

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Available-Wafer-1938 t1_iu6ed9x wrote

Wow… I’m sorry then…. Yeah then there definitely is something up. Still don’t confront him just yet, try to gather more evidence and then confront him. More evidence that he was doing something wrong when you file for a divorce (if needed, try marriage therapy or what not first) will favor you the courts will look at that stuff, if he catches on that your investigating him then he will likely destroy evidence and etc.

Overall hire a lawyer in secret if you can and save everything you find

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frfrfr222 t1_iu8yua4 wrote

He’s cheating bruh. Dump him

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Lowforge t1_iua4amm wrote

Sounds like you might just be married to a shitty person. That being said, I’m just a person on Reddit. Wtf do I know?

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Dapper_Astronaut3443 OP t1_iu61f58 wrote

So I’m not just a crazy hormonal postpartum mom 😭 I would assume this is all pretty relatively easy, he always acts like he don’t know how to work his phone but I find him doing things that I didn’t know about all the time

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